Wonderful news.  We have seven new Coordinators.   We appreciate all the work that the former Coordinators did, and welcome the new ones.

The new Coordinators are:

• Brad Young – Southern Sky Telescope OP 
• Dean Herring, Dark Nebula OP
• Hans de Moor, Constellation Hunter OPs – Northern and Southern Skies
• Krista Lemoine, Outreach Award
• Peter McLean, Urban OP
  
• Ron Kane, Asterism OP
• Russell Pinizzotto, Herschel II OP 

Sadly – This event has been postponed.

We are pleased to announce the release of a slide presentation (in PDF format) that addressses how to get started with the Astronomical League’s Observing Programs.  It is available on our main Observing Program Division web page, on the Monthly Sky Charts link on the AL Home Page, and also by using this link to go there directly:  https://www.astroleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AL-Getting-Started-20260104.pdf